Hi! Why brackets “(”, “)” are special symbols and Sentence Collector don’t accept sentences with them? It’s usual stop. Or am I wrong? I understood it, when I wanted to add sentence on Russian: «Некоторые люди слишком сильно беспокоятся о выборе ав (аватарок) на свои страницы».

Some personal notes - not answering your question, I know: It is done here (Russian rules, same as default): https://github.com/common-voice/sentence-collector/blob/85c1a455d27638c992d699d453b1cfd168ed089c/server/lib/validation/languages/ru.js#L19 You can preprocess your text to change (abc) to -…

In your case, I’d change “av” to “avatars” and remove the parenthesis (Google translated). Actually “av” is not a word, it is an abbreviation and shouldn’t be there… Some people worry too much about choosing av (avatars) for their pages

Thank you for rules. And I know that I can remove brackets, just I was surprised and wanted to ask why it’s so.

Okay, thank you, I understood :slight_smile:

In Russian “av” ( initial form: ava / ru-page /) it’s not abbreviation like IDK (I don’t know), but like u (you). It don’t have variant reading cause It’s clipping

I can not comment on the validity, of course (I also thought it was clipping).

Variation reading is main reason why we don’t want use abbreviations in Common Voice. We can’t read clippings like abbreviations in Russian. Clippings are just more shorter version of the words. They aren’t abbreviations and they usually have only one pronunciation like normal words. Therefore I thi…

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mkohler (Michael Kohler) June 18, 2022, 3:52pm 4

The main reason to disallow parenthesis was that some recorded it with, and some without saying “in parenthesis” or similar.

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